Charles Bronson: I’ve been drawn into online sketch blag on eBay

Charles Bronson, considered to be the country’s most violent inmate, is said to be incensed that a company called Gangland Memorabilia allegedly tried to pass off ten drawings as his work.

The original Charles Bronson sketch (Picture: Charles Bronson)

One of the sketches that appeared on eBay – but failed to sell – was a copy of Bronson’s Costa Del Asylum, which featured the prisoner, 59, lying on a hammock.

The listing read: ‘Bronson has now had restrictions put on the artwork he can release from prison which is causing items such as this to rise in value.’

Charles Bronson has been in jail since 1974 (Picture: David Crump)

But the HMP Wakefield inmate, jailed since 1974, reportedly told friends: ‘I’m not amazed any more by the actions of some. I almost expect this kind of thing to happen, but what a disgusting snake in the grass.

‘These are not men, they are mice, living off a man in a coffin.’

Sketches by Bronson, who held a prison art teacher hostage in 1999, can sell for up to £1,000. Gangland Memorabilia has removed the items.